PA GOP Senate candidate compares having a child outside marriage to rape

[WI_DEM]

Wake up America! Do you really want these nuts representing you?


Another GOP Senate Candidate Makes Abortion Gaffe
Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Tom Smith (R) "inadvertently waded into the war of words over rape and abortion on Monday -- the very issue his party has been trying to steer clear of these days," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

"Asked about his stance on abortion, Smith said he opposes it, with no exceptions. He then seemed to compare a woman's decision to have a child outside of marriage to having one from rape."


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/27/another_gop_senate_candidate_makes_abortion_gaffe.html

[Blue State Bandit]

1. Would that be "legitimate" rape?

These guy's wouldn't know what rape was if it snuck them from behind and raped them!

[Drale]

2. If he truly opposes abortion,

how is having a baby outside of marriage like having a baby from a rape a bad thing? In his world view a women who is raped can not have an abortion so wouldn't he cheer if a women got pregnant by rape and decided to have the child?

[niyad]

3. once again, it is ALL about the man

(this was NOT a "gaffe", this is not merely "A war of words", this is WOMEN"S LIVES)


Mark Scolforo, Associated Press: How would you tell a daughter or a granddaughter who, God forbid, would be the victim of a rape, to keep the child against her own will? Do you have a way to explain that?

Smith: I lived something similar to that with my own family. She chose life, and I commend her for that. She knew my views. But, fortunately for me, I didn’t have to.. she chose they way I thought. No don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t rape.

Scolforo: ********Similar how?

Smith: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.

Scolforo: That’s similar to rape?

Smith: No, no, no, but… put yourself in a father’s situation, yes. It is similar.**** But, back to the original, I’m pro-life, period.

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[catbyte]

5. What a fucking moron, pardon my French.

[barbtries]

4. transcript here:

http://www.politicspa.com/smith-makes-abortion-gaffe-with-audio/40404/

Mark Scolforo, Associated Press: How would you tell a daughter or a granddaughter who, God forbid, would be the victim of a rape, to keep the child against her own will? Do you have a way to explain that?

Smith: I lived something similar to that with my own family. She chose life, and I commend her for that. She knew my views. But, fortunately for me, I didn’t have to.. she chose they way I thought. No don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t rape.

Scolforo: Similar how?

Smith: Uh, having a baby out of wedlock.

apparently he was just as distressed at his daughter getting pregnant out of wedlock as he would have been had she been raped.

or at least he'd like for people to believe that it's somehow on the same par. as far as troubling pregnancies go, y'know.

what a republican.

[99Forever]

6. The Rapepublican Party....

... living up to the name.